Settings: 1. “It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.” This quote shows that the place is heavily guarded with troops and weapons to make it impossible to brake into. Nobody is able to go in without connections with the people inside to pass the security. This shows that there is something or somebody important inside that place. 2. "This, he thought with a sort of vague distaste—this was London, chief city of Airstrip One, itself the third most populous of the provinces of Oceania.” The country of the setting is in London. It said that it is the best Airstrip and has one of the largest population. It a brief description of how London is in 1984. 3. “And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willowherb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?" The surrounding places are mainly part of the army or war. There was destruction from bombs that hit around him. This part of London was probably hit or bombed by another country. 4. "Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere." I think this quote says that the setting is very windy. I think it's a empty street with no one there. Only papers rolling down the street. There is also posters everywhere that say big brother is watching so I think there is people in charge and they are like bullies. | Character: Tone: Austin & Krislyn: “It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons” The description of the ministry of love is rather intimidating, giving a place very contradictory to the word “love”. This makes it seem much more different, and the place emits a sense of foreboding. The place seems like a prison instead of a ministry for something as bright and cheery as love. Caelin: "Down in the streets little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere." Using words like harsh, plastered, vile, gritty and describing the place with whirling dust, and torn paper, and preparing for hate week creates a feeling of disgust almost and an easiness, makes you think of a very miserable place. Aly: "He could be heard of coarse, but so long as he stayed in his present position he could not be seen." This shows me that the people do know places that cannot be seen or heard. This shows me that the people. This shows me that the people don't want to be watched or heard. Austin: “Were there always these vistas of rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with baulks of timber, their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron, their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions” The quote right here is talking about the houses that are in London. Winston cannot remember a time when the houses weren’t in a state of disrepair. The mood of how the houses looked is very gray, and gives you a bit of a sad feeling about the state of London, a city that we know to be large and prosperous |